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CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
2015 - Render Hell 2.0
2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

Papers I like Pt. 1 Papers I like Pt. 2

Let's start meta:

Lamport - State the Problem Before Describing the Solution (1978). … 1-page memo. Read it.
Herlihy - Wait-free synchronization (1991) … Truly seminal. Lucid + enough good ideas for 4 papers easily.
Cook - How complex systems fail (1998) … 4 pages that anyone working on/with complex systems should read.

	GPU Gems 1 - Chapter 23. Depth of Field: A Survey of Techniques
	GPU Gems 2
	GPU Gems 3 - Chapter 28. Practical Post-Process Depth of Field

	GPU Pro 1 - Realistic Depth of Field in Post-Production
	GPU Pro 2 - Post-Proccessing Effects on Mobile Devices
	GPU Pro 3 -
	GPU Pro 4 - Images Space -> First Two Chapters
	GPU Pro 5 - 241 - Bokeh Effects on The SPU
	GPU Pro 6 -

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